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Imagine pulling this from a pack in Future Sight: Underworld Breach No reminder text, no nothing. It would take 14 years before anyone knew what "escape" did.

The Cube is 100% kinda clunky/unfocused right now since I put it together in a day or two for a contest - a lot of vibe-based decision making went into this thing. For example, Thirst of Discovery (along with a few other cards) are in there to encourage you to run basic Forests to justify having...

So... Slugging Slug - {1}{R} Creature - Slug Haste Creatures have provoke (Whenever this creature attacks, you may have target creature defending player controls untap and block it if able.) 3/1 (God, I wish they had used provoke in sets other than literally just Legions. It's much more...

I'm talking mostly for Cubing purposes, where it's reasonable to assume that people aren't going to be actively cheating/angle shooting. After sleeping on it (oh, who am I kidding, I'm procrastinating about getting ready for work), the actual solution would be to slip something into the sleeve...

So, I was trawling through Scryfall, and I stumbled on this interesting fellow: Unliving Psychopath It's not a MAXIMUM POWER card by any stretch of the imagination, but the idea of turning equipment or pump spells into repeated removal tickles me. I especially like that it's set up to bully...

Huh... it does make a land token for each creature you control with power 2 or greater, doesn't it.

To be fair to Maro, Gavin probably didn't have Hasbro execs looking for excuses to kill the whole project. ... Where was Omnipresent Impostor when we were doing the Egg Cube contest? There are a bunch of stupid archetypes you could design for that cube. Some more... interesting... designs...

This is honestly great feedback on how the cube feels (and the importance of explaining what's going on with a more "gimmicky" cube)! Mondschwein, the "joke" behind the cube is that Green is effectively colorless because all of the mana sources except for one are either Forests (because Land...

Time for a trickier one - here's a pack from Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green, my contest cube with all of the Forest duals in the basic land box and 30 copies of Land Grant. Arcbound Tracker Land Grant Woe Strider Exquisite Firecraft Kudo, King Among Bears Binding the Old Gods Cling To Dust Spara's...

Scalding Tarn I feel like first-picking fetchlands is the thing to do in formats where they're on offer? I dunno. I'm tempted by the Goyf and Demonic Tutor, but they feel like much riskier bets.

Yep! ... Some more cool designs: Blurry Visionary - {3}{U} When Blurry Visionary enters, look at the top two cards of your library, then put them back-to-back in the same sleeve with either card in front. They become a modal double-faced card for the rest of the game. 3/2 What a trippy idea...

MagicSpoiler has some of them up. Not sure where they got them... EDIT: Dear Scryfall devs: could you possibly make it easier to search for playtest cards? Currently, performing a search that gives you playtest cards and only playtest cards requires either a pretty convoluted search string or...

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Wrenn and One is... certainly a card. I appreciate the commitment to the bit. (That futuresight Gush is pretty, though.) EDIT: Of the cards I've seen so far, some of them are clearly jokes (Indicate is a {0} cost sorcery whose full rule text is "Target creature"...), but there are also some...

Good analysis! I do think, however, that you're not applying enough of a discount, since part of being an experienced Magic player is knowing what words actually matter. To use an example from OTJ, let's look at... Dance of the Tumbleweeds If you take a naive count of all the words on the...

It depends on how straightforward the card/mechanic is, to the point where the only generalization I'd make is that my recall drops if a card does more than two things (or has a bunch of exceptions/timing restrictions). To give a dumb example... let's look at good ol' Cryptic Command: Cryptic...

It's less concern and more that I think there's more nuance to the gameplay experience when "creature that generates value" and "creature that meaningfully advances my game plan" are separate, on both sides of the table. To put it a different way... Malcolm's a card that promises that it will...

I'm going to mostly agree with Train... except I'd move Malcolm below Looter il-Kor because I don't think I'd want my card advantage critter to also be a true threat.

Bloomburrow bringing the type back made me thing that it could be kinda cool to make a class cube. The idea that springs to mind is an emblem cube where everyone starts off at level 1 in the same class (or different classes, but then it'd be trickier to design around and balance). Then there's...

In defense of Master of the Wild Hunt's wordiness, there are two kinds of wordiness. Compare the following cards with eight lines of text: Master of the Wild Hunt Questing Beast Questing Beast is that wordy because it does it has three keywords and does three other things on top of that...